This is probably not something you should all be bragging about, nor a thread that should be on a transport forum. Remembering that some of us (me included) are not employees of the Public Transport Authority, we have no reason to be in any PTA Depot... A lot of Depot Managers, Operations Officers etc... read this forum and seeing this post imo, will give them plenty of reason to start questioning drivers...

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This is probably not something you should all be bragging about, nor a thread that should be on a transport forum. Remembering that some of us (me included) are not employees of the Public Transport Authority, we have no reason to be in any PTA Depot... A lot of Depot Managers, Operations Officers etc... read this forum and seeing this post imo, will give them plenty of reason to start questioning drivers...

I can see where your coming from , but i can see at minimum of atleast two legit reasons why any joe blow from the public can walk right into a depot. 1. Picking up lost property.2. Job application.And all by chance , you can end up at a depot like Laptop 15 did.

Funny enough on Sunday the 889 had a bus chamge over at Malaga (heading to Perth) so thats the first and only time I have been in a depot

Which makes me wonder, I believe this has been a common practice in other cities in Australia and New Zealand, where buses on route with passengers goes into a depot to be refueled, and then drivers are changed also at the same time.

Which also makes me wonder, I wouldn't of thought that it'd be a good idea to be changing buses over and passengers in a bus depot where a lot of buses are going in and out to start runs.

Where in Australia on urban services is it common practice for buses (with passengers on) to go via a depot and be fuelled mid trip?

No operator I have ever been associated with would even consider that. Changing over a defective bus in the depot mid trip with passengers on - yes, I've done that or arranged that many a time... (and with trams also) but never to fuel the bus with passengers on board.

By the way - I don't see an issue with this thread - just so long as no one says last week "Bob" took me to depot X

I visited Penang within the first week of RapidPenang starting & one of their supervisors diverted a heavily loaded service trip off course specifically so that I could see one of their new depots. Refuelling mid-trip is also a common enough feature in Penang. I've also visited a depot in Kuala Lumpur.

But I presume the question relates to Perth depots, and I guess with a Transperth / MTT focus, so...